Epic failure. Obama scrubbed our counter terror materials and manuals of jihad, so what would you expect to happen? Even in the wake of the blood and carnage, Eric Holder is admonishing Jews to be tolerant of Islam and warning of "anti-Muslim backlash." That's his takeaway.

Those who called for counterterror training materials to be scrubbed
of truthful information about jihad are responsible for this, and have
blood on their hands; they include the Hamas-linked Council on
American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), which mounted a huge campaign in 2010 to have me dropped as a trainer of FBI agents.
Nor was that campaign personal: they mounted similar campaigns against
any trainers and training materials that told the truth about Islam and
jihad.

Others responsible for the politically correct scrubbing of
counterterror training materials of any mention of Islam or jihad
include hard-Left pseudo-journalist Spencer Ackerman, who published a series of “exposes” of “Islamophobic” counterterror training; Farhana Khera
of Muslim Advocates, who wrote a letter to Obama’s then-chief
counterterrorism adviser and current CIA director, John Brennan,
demanding that this material be removed. Brennan, who readily acquiesced
to this demand, also bears responsibility, as does Salam al-Marayati
of the Muslim Public Affairs Council, who piled on in the mainstream
media. They got what they wanted: now FBI agents are woefully
ill-equipped to deal with the Islamic jihad threat, which they largely
must pretend does not even exist.

"Jihadi told Russians about Tamerlan," by Matt Stout and John Zaremba in the Boston Herald, May 4 (thanks to Kenneth):

A slain Canadian jihadi gave Russian counter-terrorism
agents the tip that put alleged Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev
on their radar two years ago, Bay State U.S. Rep. William R. Keating
confirmed yesterday — raising questions about whether Tsarnaev’s direct
link to the known militant was ever passed on to the FBI or local
authorities.

Keating told the Herald yesterday his staff in Russia has learned
William Plotnikov, while under interrogation in the militant hotbed of
Dagestan, named Tsarnaev as a fellow extremist.

“That’s when the Russian government started looking at Tamerlan and
he showed up on a jihadist website,” Keating (D-Bourne) said. “That’s when they contacted the U.S.”

The interrogation prompted Russian authorities to ask the FBI to
investigate Tsarnaev in 2011. It is unclear whether the Russians told
the FBI that Tsarnaev was associated with Plotnikov or another suspected
extremist, Mansur Mukhamed Nidal.

An FBI spokesman yesterday did not respond to the Herald’s request to view the Russian authorities’ plea for help.

Both Nidal and Plotnikov were killed in police raids last summer, and
Tsarnaev fled back to the United States shortly thereafter.

The detail of the information from the Russians to the FBI — and
whether the feds passed it on sufficiently to local authorities — is
sure to come up next week on Capitol Hill, where the House Homeland
Security Committee will hold a hearing on the bombings.

“I have no idea what the Russians did or did not share, but
the fact they brought up his name should have been a flashing red
light,” U.S. Rep. Jason Chaffetz, a member of the committee, told the
Herald last night. “You combine that with international travel, and
somebody’s going to have to answer some questions.

“The information is only good if it gets to those who can actually
act on it,” he said. “I want to know specifically if they shared that
information with the authorities in Boston.”...

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Canadian jihadi under interrogation told Russians about Tamerlan Tsarnaev; they then told FBI

Epic failure. Obama scrubbed our counter terror materials and manuals of jihad, so what would you expect to happen? Even in the wake of the blood and carnage, Eric Holder is admonishing Jews to be tolerant of Islam and warning of "anti-Muslim backlash." That's his takeaway.